Word: steamboated
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...March 7, date of the next showing, a short history of the animated cartoon will be presented, including Walt Disney's first effort, "Steamboat Willie." The second feature is "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Gary Cooper...
...Mountain (ski) Division, picked Colorado for its crisp air, and powdery snow, and the Alpine grandeur of its slopes. As a result, a ski mecca with the world's longest ski lift (14,100 feet) will open this month at Aspen, formerly a quiet Colorado mining town. In Steamboat Springs, schools have begun ski-instruction courses, and three Big Seven Conference colleges (Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) have adopted skiing as a varsity sport. As far south as Albuquerque, ski tows and warming huts were dotting the Rockies...
...banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it "Fulton's Folly." Last week in Danbury, Conn, the scene was repeated with variations. The occasion: the first flight of the "Airphibian," a 150-h.p. light plane which can be bisected into an aluminum-bodied automobile.* The builder & demonstrator: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an architect-turned-engineer and a descendant (he doesn't know the exact relation) of steamboat-builder Fulton...
...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
...Yellowstone. By then Marsh was a renowned pilot, the only man who had ever taken a steamboat well up the Yellowstone River. Marsh ran the 400-ton Far West up the Yellowstone to the Big Horn River, then up to the Little Big Horn. There the Far West tied for safety's sake to an island in midstream rather than the shore, for Crazy Horse and his Sioux were known to be somewhere around. The 7th U.S. Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year...